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Remember How We Used To Collect These Things As Malaysian Kids?

So tempted to go out and buy a box of flag erasers right now.

Published for Shell, 30 Sep 2016, 04:01 PM

Cover image via SAYS/Save Money

1. Saga seeds because they were bright red and shiny and had a nice shape...

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Image via Ann Maliki

Yeah, why did we collect these again?

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2. Sandy shells from your family beach holiday

3. Letters from your pen pals overseas, even if you don't read them anymore

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Image via Lisha Writes

4. Remember these fruit fridge magnets?

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Image via DH Gate

5. Who could forget your awesome stash of erasers (this was how you learned geography)

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Image via Coffee Ticks

6. Marbles, so you can fight your friends in the arena!

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Image via Save Money

7. You had your most prized bottle caps that never failed you

8. Training and feeding your beloved Digimon for battle

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Image via Save Money

9. These playing cards you'd buy from your school kedai buku

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Image via Kutub Khanahku

10. Pokemon cards were the best

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Image via Nintendo Wire

11. These teeny origami stars that you stored in a jar

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Image via Origami Palace

12. Tamiya is still the coolest thing ever, okay?

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Image via Tamiya

13. All the pretty stickers, still untouched and never used

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Image via Pinterest

And you'd get super angry when one of your siblings peeled one off!

14. Remember these custom name cards?

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Image via Ukashah Charlie

15. It felt like such a shame to use these milky pens so you saved them for really special occassions

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Image via Pinterest

16. Steaming the stamps off envelopes then leaving them out to dry

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Image via Pic UK

The rambutan and mangosteen ones are really giving me the feels...

17. Your bookshelf at home was filled with Doraemon or Dragon Ball Z comics in Bahasa Malaysia

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Image via Funny Malaysia

18. The souvenirs from Langkawi that you thought were amazing when you bought them, but that you never actually used

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Image via One Piece Of Me

19. Homemade friendship bracelets that you gave and received :)

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Image via Craft Hubs

20. There was a box of 1 sen coins somewhere

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Image via MyBabyBay

RIP 1 sen